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1996-01-13 - Re: Novel use of Usenet and remailers to mailbomb from luzskru@cpcnet.com

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From: “Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin]” <erc@dal1820.computek.net>
To: lull@acm.org (John Lull)
Message Hash: 0390afc4a7f5d3c3f053671893de69307047cabd5a241afa58c1dbee77cb3337
Message ID: <199601130053.SAA31834@dal1820.computek.net>
Reply To: <30f6de9e.28100489@smtp.ix.netcom.com>
UTC Datetime: 1996-01-13 07:50:45 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 15:50:45 +0800

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From: "Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin]" <erc@dal1820.computek.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 15:50:45 +0800
To: lull@acm.org (John Lull)
Subject: Re: Novel use of Usenet and remailers to mailbomb from luzskru@cpcnet.com
In-Reply-To: <30f6de9e.28100489@smtp.ix.netcom.com>
Message-ID: <199601130053.SAA31834@dal1820.computek.net>
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> The remailer could calculate a hash for the body of each encrypted
> message received (the same portion which will be decrypted by PGP),
> tabulate the last few thousand hashes, and simply discard any messages
> with a duplicate hash.  The target of the attack would receive only
> the first copy of the message.

That wouldn't keep the mailer from getting choked up pretty quickly, 
though, especially if it's on the end of a < T1 line.
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